Pages tagged with "Africa"

31 pages, most important first (overviews, then meta-analyses, then RCTs, then newest). Combine with another topic

• Vitamin D and malaria – many studies
• African Vitamin D - 60% have less than 30 ng – Meta-analysis
• Migrants from Middle East are slightly more vitamin D deficient than those from Africa - meta-analysis
• Preeclampsia 11X more likely if poor Vitamin D Binding Protein (South Africa)
• Veiled Somali pregnant women in Sweden had low vitamin D and were weak
• Chart of Vitamin D levels vs race
• Cancer 2.4X more deadly if Vitamin D deficient (Africa)
• Vitamin A deficiency in more than 30% of children in some Middle Eastern and African countries
• Vitamin D deficiency while pregnant: 60X more likely if religious clothing requirement (Africa)
• Vitamin D genes vary with UVB in Europe, Africa, Asia
• Africa
• HIV, TB, Malaria more important than COVID to lower Africa
• South African white children 48 ng vitamin D – black 37 ng
• Dark-skinned hunter-gatherers may generate 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily
• Vitamin D deficiency is a major global public health problem – Maps
• Vitamin D deficiency - Ghana 43 percent
• Pneumonia in Egyptian Children 3.6 X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor
• Traditionally living Africans have 46 ng vitamin D levels
• Nigerian albinos have vitamin D levels of 96 ng
• Elderly Influenza deaths do not increase in winter in countries with high vitamin D levels
• Children in Uganda have low vitamin D, and lower still if severe malaria
• Vitamin D history back to Egyptians and fortification
• Low back pain in 71 percent of youths in Egypt – associated with low vitamin D
• Calcium reduced some rickets in Nigerian children
• Vitamin D deficiency in Middle East and North Africa
• Black Sudanese children 350X more likely to have rickets than other Australians
• Black women and vitamin D: Nigeria 26 ng, Chicago 12 ng
• Countries often only consider their own vitamin D publications (example – South Africa)
• Native women in East Africa have a good level of vitamin D (40 ng)
• Vitamin D levels of East African tribes
• Hypovitaminosis D in the Middle East and North Africa